Skills

Work history

Currently

Visual Artist

Self-employed

Aug 2004

2014

Assistant to the Talks & Events Programme

Institute of Contemporary Arts

Aug 2014 - Dec 2014

Voluntary internship, responsibilities included:
•Worked closely with the Talks and Events Programme to host successful panel and one-to-one forums, such as the Culture Now series: Lisa Schiff with Gregor Muir, Neïl Beloufa, Joshua Decter, and Renzo Martens
•Thoroughly researched future lecture themes, compiled and logged information on topics and guests like Barry Rosen, Mary Moore, Gilane Tawadros, Daniel McClean for the talk The Artist, The Artwork, The Guardian and The Legacy presented by DACS
•Documented the week-long symposium ICA Off-Site: The Old Selfridges Hotel and opening night of Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2014 as a Vox pop video
•Filmed, edited and uploaded talks of a wide-ranging discourse using Adobe CS software, including revisiting themes from the 1960's landmark exhibition in the symposium Cybernetic Serendipity: a Documentation
•Accurately edited and proofread press releases and collated spreadsheets for the archives & exhibitions, like the Beware Wet Paint group show, creating the visual PowerPoint for the panel debate The Trouble with Fashion
•Front of house duties e.g. received BBC reporters for interviews with the Fig-2 curator Fatos Ustek and Gagosian Director, Mark Francis
•Assisted Education Partnerships with widening access programmes, such as preparing video camera equipment and creating accompanying storyboard idea charts for the youth programme, Into Film Filmmaking Workshop With Alex Reuben
•Started the foundation research into Artificial Intelligence for the #FOMO talk series which followed in May 2015

2015

Student Ambassador

Kingston University

Apr 2014 - Aug 2015

•Regularly gave guided campus tours during Open Days which involved me clearly communicating to prospective students and their families about life at the university.
•Introduced new students to the Fine Art Department which involved me explaining the course structure, modules and giving tours of studio workshops.